Alberta ground zero for green battle

Former Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed warns of an imminent constitutional battle over the environment.  "On one side is the Canadian public, deeply worried about climate change, putting pressure on the federal government for strong environmental protection legislation...

Ed Stelmach=Harry Strom

"Its a day of joy in mudville, the safe guy won the PC Leadership Race...Ed Stelmach.Yeee Haw as Howard Dean once said. The joy the joy. Just counting the days till the dissolution of the PC's. They just elected their very own Harry Strom."

Mushy Middle A Canadian Value

"This says it all bout Canadian Politics this weeked.Everybody's second choice rises to top It was the case for both the Federal Liberals and for the Alberta PC's. Ed Stelmach Is Alberta's New Premier"

Dinning Exposed

"Calgary Sun Columnist Rick Bell, himself being attacked by BT bloggers, takes a swipe at the crowd of syncophantic Moronites, err Mortonites in the blogosphere. Unfortunately it's a column he should have wrtitten a week ago. He reminds them that it was Dinning, not Ralph,...

The Other Alberta Boom

"Homelessness. I got a job but no home. It’s an unfortunate side effect of Alberta’s red hot economy. With the vacancy rate near the zero mark, and soaring house prices, the homeless count is rising in Edmonton with few short term solutions in sight."

Alberta Business Back PC Candidates

"Two interesting Edmonton Journal articles on which Alberta companies back PC leadership candidates. Dinning of course has the backing of the majority of big corporations in the province. But Mark Norris, had the backing of his bosses and their corporation, The Edmoton Oilers."

Stelmach Up The Middle

"Ted Morton is scared. He announced yesterday that he was now the moderate candidate for leadership of the provincial PC's. With major endorsements from Hancock and Oberg and now Norris, Stelmach is gaining strength in numbers. And this scares Morton."

Morton's Harpocrisy

"Mr. Morton, whose platform includes less influence from Ottawa, is confident he has enough untapped support to win. This from the guy who is supported by the Federal Conservative Party, the current New Government of Canada,his old Reform Party pals Harper, Day, Kenney, etc. "

Edmonton PC Votes

""The Edmonton vote was split up all over the place. Dinning had 5575 in Edmonton and Hancock had 4995. No doubt some Hancock votes will bleed to Dinning. Oberg was third in Edmonton with 3228 and they have no reason to go to Dinning but will bleed some to Morton who had...

Who Knew

"Live blog of Conservative leadership vote Canada.com, Canada - 3 hours ago Calgary Herald Q Bloggers Ben Li and Maclean Kay will be filing real-time reports and video updates from the Round-Up Centre as we find out who the next ... Really the Calgary Herald was live...

The Biggest Losers

"In the race to be the guy to replace Ralph. Lyle Oberg and Mark Norris. FINAL RESULTS (courtesy The Invisble Hand) 11:45pm: Dinning 29,470 (30.2%) Morton 25,614 (26.2%) Stelmach 14,967 (15.3%) Oberg 11,638 (11.9%) Hancock 7,595 (7.8%) Norris 6,789 (6.9%) Doerksen 873...

Silence Is Golden

"Alberta Tories mute on Quebec question As my mother says if you can't say anything nice don't say anything at all."

Is Dinning In Trouble

"This is an non-scientific poll from the Calgary Sun. On the eve of the big vote it does not portend well for Jim Dinning in his race to become the man who replaces Ralph. After all Calgary is his home town."

Dinning Morton Tied

"Stunning. But not unexpected. The anybody but Dinning camp and the social conservative political lobby is mobilizing behind Republican Ted Morton in the race to replace Ralph. Leaving Oberg in third place with all the other runner-ups. It's Calgary Corporate Interests versus...

And They Run The Province

"This is hilarous. These are the guys who want to be the leader of the province and have been running it for 35 years. Heavy turnout at advance poll 'hell' for some voters  "This is terrible," said Mike Wincentaylo, as he approached his third hour in the...